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Game 62, Mariners At White Sox

For better or worse, the big story tonight is going to be Mike Carp. He joins the team after destroying the PCL for the last six weeks, and Eric Wedge has him in the line-up at DH today; he hits eighth in the line-up. I know new is often exciting, but please keep in mind that he’s still Mike Carp, and let your expectations reflect that. Try not to get disappointed if he doesn’t save the offense single-handedly.

Peguero gets the start in left again after his two hit night last night. It’s almost unfortunate that the team keeps delaying the inevitable with him, as he keeps having nights where he’s just good enough to tempt the team into keeping him in the line-up. In reality, the sooner Peguero is back in Tacoma, the better this team is. An ugly 0-4 might be in everyone’s best interests, at least as long as the team can win in spite of it.

Comments

After that interview with the former Padres GM, I no longer put much stock in ballpark radar gun readings.

Idaho M on
June 8th, 2011 8:49 pm

Smoak is quite possibly the slowest guy on the team. Cust would beat him in a 40. Good move to PR for him.

SodoJoe on
June 8th, 2011 8:52 pm

What a game! Carp kept his streak going with a double. Welcomed to the bigs with a plunk. Olivo is the MAN!!!!

Kazinski on
June 8th, 2011 10:35 pm

After that interview with the former Padres GM, I no longer put much stock in ballpark radar gun readings.

The readings looks suspect, but I don’t think they are using radar to get them, they are using the Pitch F/x cameras. League’s fastball was between 98 and 100, but has averaged 96 over the last 5 weeks before tonight.

As a control I looked at Sergio Santos’ velocity tonight, he threw about 17 fastballs between 93 and 97. I looked at his last 4 road games, in 3 different parks, to see his average velocity lately outside of Comiskey, and his fastball averaged 95.1.

Looks legit, or maybe +1 at the most, at least compared to other parks.

Santos only dipped to 93 on his last pitch, his 27th, that Olivo launched. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Guillen should have lifted Santos after his 4 pitch walk to Kennedy, and 26th pitch.

Breadbaker on
June 9th, 2011 12:30 am

From 1977 to 2011, has any Mariner catcher ever had a week like Miguel Olivo’s?

Westside guy on
June 9th, 2011 1:10 pm

From 1977 to 2011, has any Mariner catcher ever had a week like Miguel Olivo’s?

I can think of several weeks Miguel Olivo’s had this year that were very similar to ones put up by his immediate predecessor.

Oh, I bet you meant THIS week… 😀

msfanmike on
June 9th, 2011 2:53 pm

I think you just have to ask yourself, will the Rangers be 8-10 games OVER .500 at that point

Well, the Rangers are 7 games over .500 right now – so yes, I think they will be. They just got healthy, so they will probably be well over 8 games over .500 by the end of July.